Steel Water: an A.C.S line, and how restocking works
Steel Water is one of the A.C.S lines the library carries, and at the time of writing it is between batches. That is worth a guide of its own, because how a library handles an out-of-stock line tells you something about how it handles everything else.
01What Steel Water is
Steel Water is an isolated Psilocybe cubensis line in the A.C.S collection carried through Mushrealm. The listing states plainly that the genetic has been worked by A.C.S. The catalogue does not publish a parent cross for it.
02Lineage and history
The documented record is the isolation and the collection, and this guide does not pad that out with invention.
What is worth explaining is the stock position. MycoWorld prepares syringes to order in small batches, filled in a flow hood from a logged print and refrigerated from filling to dispatch. That is why the LOT date on a syringe you receive is recent. The trade-off is that when a print is used up, the card goes out of stock until the next one is taken, rather than the library shipping a syringe that has been sitting warm for a year.
A permanently in-stock catalogue is a warning sign, not a feature.
03Under the microscope
When it returns, expect a pigmented cubensis population: subellipsoid, thick-walled, germ pore, purple-brown in mass, dense print, and a tight size range from a worked isolate.
In the meantime the other A.C.S cards in this chapter behave the same way on the slide, so a reference series does not need to wait. Lucid Gates, Project Bluebook and Hellmonkey are all in stock and all pigmented isolates from the same collection.
04Where to buy Steel Water in the UK
Steel Water is between batches at the time of writing. The card is Steel Water spore syringe in the strain library, and it shows the current position: syringes are prepared to order from logged prints, so a line goes out of stock rather than shipping aged stock.
- Price: isolated lines are listed at £20 per syringe. The card shows the current price, including any sale.
- UK shipping: £3.80, and free on orders over £75. US orders ship at a flat $8.
- Dispatch: one to two working days from the UK, tracked, in a plain padded mailer with no branding on the outside.
- Every order is 18+ and confirms lawful microscopy use at checkout.
Browse the rest of the collection on the Mushrealm and A.C.S chapter, or open the strain library to filter by species, format or isolation status. If anything arrives cloudy or damaged, email a photo and the LOT number and it is replaced.
Specimens for this story: Lucid Gates, Project Bluebook (CG isolation) and Hellmonkey, all prepared under sterile protocol and LOT-logged in the UK.
Questions people ask
Is Steel Water available now?
It is between batches at the time of writing. The library prepares syringes to order from logged prints, so cards go out of stock rather than shipping aged stock. The product page shows the current position.
What is Steel Water a cross of?
The catalogue records an A.C.S isolation and does not publish a parent cross.
Can I buy this strain legally in the UK?
Spores contain no controlled substance and are sold for microscopy, taxonomy and research. Germinating them is an offence in the UK, which is why every specimen here is supplied strictly for microscopy. See our Legal Use Policy. This is not legal advice.